Gadget University gets its hand son the Motorola Droid Xtreme (Verizon)

First there was the Motorola
Droid; and it was good. Then came the HTC
Droid Incredible, which brought a sleeker shape and ditched the
slide-out keyboard. This morning, we brought you news of the followup
to the original Motorola Droid: the Motorola
Droid 2.

Now, there is yet another smartphone
which is set to take on the "Droid" name and it should be
arriving shortly. Gadget University has laid
its hands upon the Motorola Droid Xtreme which has been
circulating around the web for the past few weeks.

The Droid Xtreme is said to feature a
750MHz Texas Instruments OMAP3630 processor, 4.3" display, hardware buttons, 8.0MP digital camera (with HD video recording capabilities), and
HDMI-out. Phandroid
offers up some additional information, stating that the display's
resolution is listed at 480x854. The site also notes that the phone
measures 2.5" x 5.01" and is 0.39" thick. Weight is
listed at 5.47 ounces.

According to both sources, the Droid
Xtreme is running Android 2.1 with Motoblur. It's quite disappointing
that these brand new smartphones like the HTC
EVO 4G, Droid 2, and Droid Xtreme aren't shipping with the
superior
Android 2.2 operating system, but there always has to be a cutoff
point when adding new functionality for a production smartphone -- so
we'll have to cut these guys a little bit of slack on this point.

We can only hope that Motorola and HTC
won't make customers wait too long to get their Sense and
Motoblur-tinged copies of Android 2.2.